MURDER AND MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 19, 13 May 1876, Page 2

MURDER AND MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS.

At the Bow-street- Police Court, Lokclou, ten seamen, of the slnp Lennie, were charged before Sir Thomas Henry, trifli mutiny and murder on board the higli seas. Mr. Puloiid, who-prosecutes! «m behalf of the Treasury, said that the prison jrs were with the wilful nwtdor on the high seas of Stanley Hatfiehi the captain of tho Bonnie ; Joseph Wort ley, tho first mate ; and Rich art] Ma';don:iid. ilio second mate, on the SIS October last. Some of the v risouers took a very much more active part than tho others, said it was therefore necessary that | the evidence as it affected each should Ik> fully placed before the Court. The Lennio belonged to Yarmouth and Nova Scotia, and the prisoners joined tho vessel at Antwerp, on the 23rd October, it being in want of hands. Ti.e Captain was Stanley Hatiielfl, Canadian. The first mate was Joseph vYo.t'.ey, an Irishman ; andt 1 e >ecoi:d i: a a was Richaul Macdcnakl, an Englishman. Besides these there were : oi board two Belgians, the steward ; Constant von Hoyunck, and his assistant/ Henry. Trousselot, who were the principal' 1 witnesses in the case. These, the eleven prisoners, made up sixteen hands on board. It was on the 31st October the unfortunate ali'air occurred. On the 9th of November —that is, after the milrder—six of the prisoners left the vessel in a. boat, : the Bonnie then lying oh' Uochelle. These, six men pretended they had been shipwrecked, but the French authorities, pecting something, arrested tained them until inore could be about them. The steward and his - ant and the • remainder of th.3 . er soMPAsv i mained on nri sentiin, thisrt2tlrj

"wu* over*;'-l< an- '• the Hvm ri'ca nM| dii.ki'ii into custody. l^e "«trd r.n.l the thmuyfU whosf ''iMimi'iil-alitv hlif win.lf artair had Kvu 'I t''»' French authorities '((■ cry way i- 1 "-- ''•!. ft" (Mr. tV-Un') (Mil 'not 'eulo...U> IV." vo:id.net. ot thoi,.; "ffiimii. for lie thought when he came to. brl wliati fclu-sy ha I done, fch«J dewd* wot;!:!: Ill' ji foe tlunuaolves. Ti-:e men w«ve a«m ,| on liiu! t)t.U November, awl »lnw ill fcii,|i• fclie Frenchaufchoritiest havt; been it ,„.,l in i:i< 111ifii; _c into the case, and s(l ' avi'i'y full inquiry (shay- thought it 'lit . 'iluf.v'l.o ail th<>- eleven rneu over ti' fia!(c t<heii' f.i'ial. ffeve Mr., f otaud n, ~ hi;'!) [.rai.xi- of the y.e:vf, intelltHi i!, ami energy ot the French anChovily lt . prisontiVH wi-vw remanded for» week. hi i,. rtfcewfi'd. of tin; Lenme hiw made a it- ii'ii-111 detailing the circumstance* of ii- iiiintnt'M. The -Ist nutohcu- wan the IV mi which- til" men. nmtmU*t, the » |j 0 l.avinjc then been at Mca live thiyn* it hiiu ami officers were kilttd, and ii* ' thrown overboard. The io iti-ct'H then commanded the steward ;i>. t,, (libraltar. Instead of doing ».► iw islcil tlii-iu and kt.'l't about the coast lt< rimer. Hue iu.;ht he ttu-'W thirtyit linttli H i»r(;pl>o»wd, uach the ;• uial.ioii oi" the cfime. S»u:e days I. this tin.' miitifHH.'rs became d.wti-U»t' l„ ,f him. and took chaise of the ship i(. isdvcH. The »ix hWb left the * ,1 in a boat,, and fctiemselive» t !o :i, li'i'cnch Ci'umiiswwy ot Marine an i> , (ii,sl-.il;uf.i), and belou-'in-C ti* a (keek k which had- fi>!i;uh-'reil. _A ftetmiii it named. Kesto became suspwiotts tfiat t us nut riijlit on board the LecvnU:, anit » i Iviiown lii» to- the ehiet' of I U ' police at Rochet'ott. Tin ir arrest it folh.wwl.